Could disused Worcester County Hall be used for hospital parking?
There are calls for the site to become an overflow parking area
Residents have added to calls for the empty Worcester County Hall car parks to be used as overflow hospital parking.
With car parks at Worcestershire Royal Hospital often busy and County Hall sitting empty, the idea has been described as “common sense”.
Worcestershire County Council’s new administration will be asked what it plans to do with the Spetchley Road site at a full council meeting tomorrow (Thursday 22nd May).
Green Party councillors will suggest opening up at least two car parks on the site and installing additional Beryl Bike bays.
Charles Clapham said on social media: “Flattening it County Hall and building a multistorey on the site for the hospital/Worcester Woods would be a good use for the site.
“Maybe then given the huge lack of disabled spaces, they could change the car park outside the main entrance of the hospital to be all disabled and solve a huge number of issues for the hospital parking situation.”
Miles Dandey suggested the parking fees “actually went to the hospital, not to the parking agent”.
Jane Humphries asked: “Why can’t they build the new school here? Ideal for Sixth Form college and Nunnery Wood and there would be less traffic holdup than at the proposed site.”
Plans for a multi-storey car park to serve the hospital and a new secondary school were approved by the county council in March.
The school, which will be accessed from a new road off Newtown Road, is expected to welcome its first cohort in 2028.
The 850-space car park will have a new access road from the A4440 Nunnery Way.